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* Full UK ties may boost trade
* Iraq, Iran to hold July meeting on POWs
* Iranian FM receives new UN drug official for Iran
* Iran to witness last solar eclipse
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* Iranian NASA researcher shows tool
can diagnose cataracts, glaucoma
* Japan mulls unlocking official loans to Iran: reports
* Arab ministers to discuss Iran ties and Iraq
* MKO says Iran attacked base in Iraq
* Iran slams ``irresponsible'' U.S. general's comments
* Conservative reappointed head of radio-TV
* Protestors attacked, several arrested
* Khatami urges clergy on "realities"
* Guards commander says no need for change
* Tehran opens home for street children
* Students protest against exam questions
* Factional tug-of-war prevents new Tehran mayor
* Islamic fundamentalists clash with students
* Iran to launch first training for policewomen
* Iran colonel dies in helicopter crash - paper
* UK considers cover for Iranian oil projects
* Iran hosts nearly 2 million refugees
* Khatami welcomes conciliatory Clinton remarks
* Khatami vows reform two years on
* Rally marks anniversary of reforms
* Reformist MP gets six months
* Khatami the key to closer Iran-Arab ties
* Iran protests to NATO over damage to residence
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Friday
May 28, 1999
* Full UK ties may boost trade
May 28, 1999 (Middle East Economic Digest) - Full diplomatic relations
were restored with the UK on 18 May, completing Tehran's rapprochement
with the EU. The upgrading of ties could speed up insurance cover by the
UK's Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD) for several big oil and
gas projects ... FULL
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* Iraq, Iran to hold July meeting on POWs
BAGHDAD, May 26 (AFP) - Iraqi and Iranian officials will exchange information
on the fate of prisoners of war at a July meeting in Baghdad, the Iraqi
coordinator of the two countries' joint committee said Wednesday ... FULL TEXT
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* Iranian FM receives new UN drug official for Iran
TEHRAN, May 26 (AFP) - Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi received
Wednesday the new UN Drug Control Program chief for Iran, who presented
his letter of accreditation, the official IRNA news agency said ... FULL TEXT
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* Iran to witness last solar eclipse
TEHRAN, Iran, May 27 (UPI) -- An Iranian tourist official says the
last complete solar eclipse of this century will take place in the city
of Esfahan and will attract many tourists from around the world ... FULL TEXT
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Thursday
May 27, 1999
* Iranian NASA researcher shows tool can diagnose cataracts, glaucoma
Birmingham, Alabama (The Birmingham News) -- Alireza Arabshahi is a
wizard with a laser who hopes his experiment with light will lead to a
medical breakthrough. The idea is to diffuse a laser beam to measure the
growth of protein molecules responsible for eye disease ... FULL TEXT
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* Japan mulls unlocking official loans to Iran: reports
TOKYO, May 27 (AFP) -Japan is considering lifting a US-inspired freeze
on low-interest official loans to Iran as President Mohammad Khatami is
seen to be pursuing moderate and realistic policies, press reports said
Thursday ... FULL
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* Arab ministers to discuss Iran ties and Iraq
DUBAI, May 27 (Reuters) - Gulf Arab foreign ministers meet in Saudi
Arabia next month to discuss warming relations with Tehran following a
landmark visit by Iranian President Mohammad Khatami to Riyadh ... FULL
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* MKO says Iran attacked base in Iraq
BAGHDAD, May 27 (Reuters) - The armed Iranian opposition group Mujahideen
Khalq has said that Iranian government agents attacked one of its bases
in Iraq. It said in a statement that Iranian ``terrorists'' fired rockets
at their Homayoun base in the suburbs of the Iraqi city of Amarah about
360 km (220 miles) south of Baghdad before dawn on Wednesday ... FULL
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* Iran slams ``irresponsible'' U.S. general's comments
TEHRAN, May 27 (Reuters) - Iran has denounced critical remarks by the
general in command of U.S. forces in the Middle East as an attempt to create
tensions in the Gulf region. Iranian newspapers said the Foreign Ministry
was reacting to comments on Monday by General Anthony Zinni who cautioned
against over-hasty engagement with Iran ... FULL
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Wednesday
May 26, 1999
* Conservative reappointed head of Iranian state radio, television
TEHRAN, May 26 (AFP) - Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
on Wednesday reappointed the conservative head of state radio and television
to another five-year term and called for renewed commitment to the ideological
struggle. Ali Larijani, 43, who served as minister of culture and Islamic
guidance from 1992 to 1994, was reappointed as director of Islamic Republic
of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), the official IRNA news agency said ... FULL TEXT
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* Protestors attacked, several arrested
May 26, (Alliance for Defense of Human Rights in Iran) - News reports
from Iran indicate that several students, including a student leader, Mr.
Manouchehr Mohammadi Secretary General of the National Association of Iranian
Students and Alumni, have been kidnapped from Tehran University. Their
whereabouts are unknown ... FULL
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* Khatami urges clergy to take "present-day realities"
into account
TEHRAN, May 26 (AFP) - Iran's reformist President Mohammad Khatami has
urged members of the Shiite Moslem clergy to take "present-day realities"
and the needs of the country's youth into account, the official IRNA news
agency reported Wednesday ... FULL
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* Guards Corps commander says country should not change its policies
May 21 (IRNA-BBC) - Lt-Gen Seyyed Yahya Rahim-Safavi, commander of the
Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, has said that there was there "no
need" for the country to change its policies, given that the USA continued
to maintain its efforts to undermine national unity ... FULL
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* Tehran opens home for street children
TEHRAN, May 22 (AFP) - Tehran has opened a home for street children,
whose numbers have been rising as Iran's economy descends deeper into difficulties.
The Green House, a modest building in northern Tehran, opened its doors
at the beginning of April to try to stem the tide of childhood misery ...
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* Students protest against exam questions
Tehran (Hamshahri) -- Hundreds of boy and girl students took to the
streets in Tehran to protest against what they called ridiculously difficult
questions in an 11th grade physics exam... FULL
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Tuesday
May 25, 1999
* Factional tug-of-war prevents election of new Tehran mayor
TEHRAN, May 25 (AFP) - Tehran's municipal council on Tuesday postponed
the election of a new mayor for the second time in a week amid a dispute
over who should head one of the world's largest capitals. "The election
of the mayor is not on Tuesday's agenda of the city council meeting,"
a municipality source told AFP, adding that members of the council had
failed to reach a consensus over the candidates ... FULL
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* Islamic fundamentalists clash with Tehran university students
TEHRAN, May 25 (AFP) - Groups of Islamic fundamentalists clashed with
several hundred pro-reform students during a political gathering at Tehran
university on Tuesday, witnesses said. The gathering, which took place
inside the university campus, was in "defence of political prisoners
and freedom." ... FULL
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* Iran to launch first training for policewomen
May 25, 1999 TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) -- Iran will soon launch its first
training for women police officers, in a move to improve employment opportunities
for women in the Islamic republic, the official IRNA news agency reported
Tuesday ... FULL
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* Iran colonel dies in helicopter crash - paper
TEHRAN, May 23 (Reuters) - An Iranian army intelligence colonel and
another officer died when their helicopter crashed in southern Iran, a
newspaper reported on Sunday ... FULL
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* UK considers cover for Iranian oil projects
London, may 24, irna - britain's export credit guarantee department
(ecgd) is sending a delegation to tehran next week to discuss state cover
for an iranian oil project that is at an advanced stage ... FULL TEXT
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* Iran hosts nearly 2 million refugees
TEHRAN (May 25) XINHUA - Iran presently hosts 1.9 million refugees,
the largest number in any country of the world, a senior Iranian official
said on Tuesday ... FULL
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Monday
May 24, 1999
* Khatami welcomes conciliatory Clinton remarks
DOHA, May 23 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami welcomed as
"courageous" on Sunday recent conciliatory remarks by US President
Bill Clinton but called on him to back up his words with deeds. "I
think that the point of view expressed by Mr. Clinton was courageous, without
knowing to what extent he was convinced of what he was saying or whether
it was just a tactic," Khatami said in an interview with the Qatari
satellite television channel Al-Jazira ... FULL
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* Khatami vows reform two years on
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami Sunday vowed to
press on with democratic reform on the second anniversary of his election
but warned that abuse of freedom could undermine clerical rule in the Islamic
republic ... FULL
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* Rally marks anniversary of reforms
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of local councilors, elected three
months ago in Iran's biggest experiment in grassroots democracy, rallied
in a giant sports stadium Sunday to celebrate the second anniversary of
President Mohammad Khatami's landslide election ... FULL
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* Reformist Iranian MP gets six months for threatening conservative
TEHRAN, May 24 (AFP) - A reformist Iranian MP has been sentenced to
six months in jail for using a gun to threaten a conservative member of
the supervisory boards which oversaw February's local elections, newspapers
reported Monday ... FULL
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* Khatami the key to closer Iran-Arab ties
DUBAI, May 24 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, the moderate
leader of the former pariah of the Gulf, is the key to further improving
ties with Iran's Arab neighbours, diplomats and Gulf officials say ...
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* Iran protests to NATO over damage to mission residence in Belgrade
TEHRAN, May 23 (AFP) - Iran filed an official protest with NATO on Sunday
over damage to the residence of the Iranian mission in Belgrade in a NATO
air raid, the official IRNA news agency said. ... FULL
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